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Order III. Pafleriiie, 
Genus XLV. 
Crested Goat-sucker. 
This bird is fomewhat fmaller than our European 
fpecies, meafuring only nine inches and a half in length. 
The general colour of the plumage on the upper parts is 
dark -brown, mottled and crofled with obfcure whitifh 
bars : the quills are plain brown, but five or fix of the 
outer ones marked with dufky white fpots on the outer 
webs : the tail is rounded in fiiape, and marked with 
twelve narrow bars of a dufky white, mottled with black, 
as are the various whitifii marks on the upper parts : 
the under parts of the body are more or lefs white; but 
the fore part of the neck and breall: are croflTed with nu- 
merous dulky bars : the bill is black, but the gape and 
within yellow ; the fides of the mouth furnillied with 
briftles, as in other goat-fuckers ; befides which, at the 
bafe of the bill are ten or twelve erect ftifFbri files, thinly 
barbed on their fides, and Handing perfe6tly upright as 
a creft, giving the bird a fingular appearance : the legs 
are weak, longer than in moft of the tribe, and of a 
pale yellow colour ; claws brown. 
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